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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1893
Page
3
A collage of jokes and witticisms from preachers lawyers doctors and ensitors with dry and juicy humor. Bits include a Spanish style baron and waiter exchange a mother teaching duty on weather and a child quip about a family in a decent circle. Published in Texas Siftings and Street Smiths Good News style pages.
A collage of brief jokes and quips from old papers like New York Weekly Boston gossip panels and Texas Siftings delivers quick wits. Silly exchanges touch on betting, dolls, art, dogs, and daily life with punchy one liners and cartoonish banter.
A mosaic of snippets from periodical humor and social notes. Jests about mail, coal, singing birds on installment plans, couples in wit, and shop talk mix with animal health cautionary tales. Includes nursery scenes with kittens, scarlet fever warnings, and a railroad tonnage calculation in a rapid collage.
A religious column discusses living with solemnity, character shaping destiny, and how actions echo through eternity. It cites Phillips Brooks, warns against pulpit decline, and urges youth to think carefully, act with kindness, and develop steadfast faith amid moral influence.
A reminiscence from Civil War days recounts near misses with bullets and a tire bullet impact, with Captain May recalling escaping a shot by inches while hiding by a caisson. The tale leads into other anecdotes about war, congressmen, and curious natural history notes from Youth companion.
A tornado insurer once paid a claim for a horse died in a wind without damage. The insured demanded immediate payment and claimed wind caused death, prompting a suggestion to add a clause denying wind liability. The note cites a Chicago Inter Ocean idea for wind insured losses. Miss Nancy Marvin dies at 103 in Monrovia Ind after long memory of a betrothed lover Nicholas Hayes of Baltimore. She was a longtime Methodist lay member and possibly the United States’ oldest unmarried woman.
A long coupon style notice invites readers to form words from the letters of Worlds Fair to win cash prizes and a free trip to Chicago for the Columbian Exposition. It details escalating word counts from thirty five to seventy five with amounts, postage paid, and travel costs covered by The Scott Seed Company of Toronto.
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